A 19-year-old Chicago woman is facing charges of dropping her newborn daughter from an eighth-floor window in Uptown, killing the baby, because she feared discovery of the pregnancy by her family, prosecutors said.

It’s a familiar story: unwanted babies abandoned out on the street or worse. What we don’t often hear about are the babies safely surrendered under Illinois’s “safe haven” law. As CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez reports, 110 babies have been given a second chance since

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To date, more than 3600 infants have been safely surrendered to Safe Havens nationally.

Please help us continue our passion, commitment and dedication to spreading awareness of Safe Haven laws.